Efficiency and Privatization in the NHS

On Question Time this evening (2015-11-26) the ‘Should we privatise the NHS?’ question came up again. It was stated that the German and French health services are more efficient (whether this is true is open to endless debate) and that the reason was private sector involvement. Despite the fact that many people in an audience …

Protect our BBC

Reducing the funding and challenging the independence of the BBC is a step towards its privatization. UK commercial TV and radio is good because it exists in an environment that contains the BBC. Making the BBC commercial would be like turning the principal predator in an ecosystem into a vegetarian and expecting everything else to …